ABOUT THIS BOOKArrows in the Dark recounts and analyzes the many efforts of aid and rescue made by the Jewish community of Palestine—the Yishuv—to provide assistance to European Jews facing annihilation by the Nazis. Tuvia Friling provides a detailed account of the activities carried out at the behest of David Ben-Gurion and the Yishuv leadership, from daring attempts to extract Jews from Nazi-occupied territory, to proposals for direct negotiations with the Nazis. Through its rich array of detail and primary documentation, this book shows the wide scope and complexity of Yishuv activity at this time, refuting the idea that Ben-Gurion and the Yishuv ignored the plight of European Jews during the Holocaust.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYTuvia Friling is senior research fellow and director of the Ben-Gurion Research Center at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Since October 2001, he has served as Israel’s State Archivist. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles on David Ben-Gurion, the Holocaust, and Israeli history.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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>Contents
>Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Confronting the Information
1. Phases of acknowledging: Information, consciousness, mental and emotional processing<<HENRY: CHAPTER TITLES AND SUBTITLES CAN BE RATHER LENGTHY; SUGGEST NEW TITLES?>>
2. "And when no cure is available, witchcraft is not an option
3. Lightening Rod: Establishing the Rescue Committee
Part II.
4. "Or We Shall Have No Repentance": Plans to Rescue Children
5. Dealing with the Devil: The 1942 and 1943 Ransom Plans
6. Between the Hammer and the Anvil in 1944: Continuing Efforts to Rescue Children and the Struggle for Immigration
7. The Secret Partnership
8. "If There is a One in a Million Hope": Attempts to Rescue Hungarian Jewry and the Negotiations toward the End of the War
9. Bombing to Deter and Stultify
10. On the Brink of the Abyss: Financial Maneuvers by Ben-Gurion and Kaplan--1942 to 1943
11. Financing Activity in Liberated Europe
12. The Jewish Agency Budget and Fund-raising Appeals in Palestine
13. Fundraising Campaigns Abroad
14. Money Transfers
15. Funding Aid and Rescue Operations: A Summary
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Arrows in the Dark recounts and analyzes the many efforts of aid and rescue made by the Jewish community of Palestine—the Yishuv—to provide assistance to European Jews facing annihilation by the Nazis. Tuvia Friling provides a detailed account of the activities carried out at the behest of David Ben-Gurion and the Yishuv leadership, from daring attempts to extract Jews from Nazi-occupied territory, to proposals for direct negotiations with the Nazis. Through its rich array of detail and primary documentation, this book shows the wide scope and complexity of Yishuv activity at this time, refuting the idea that Ben-Gurion and the Yishuv ignored the plight of European Jews during the Holocaust.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYTuvia Friling is senior research fellow and director of the Ben-Gurion Research Center at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Since October 2001, he has served as Israel’s State Archivist. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles on David Ben-Gurion, the Holocaust, and Israeli history.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

<<contents page--book page v>>
>Contents
>Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Confronting the Information
1. Phases of acknowledging: Information, consciousness, mental and emotional processing<<HENRY: CHAPTER TITLES AND SUBTITLES CAN BE RATHER LENGTHY; SUGGEST NEW TITLES?>>
2. "And when no cure is available, witchcraft is not an option
3. Lightening Rod: Establishing the Rescue Committee
Part II.
4. "Or We Shall Have No Repentance": Plans to Rescue Children
5. Dealing with the Devil: The 1942 and 1943 Ransom Plans
6. Between the Hammer and the Anvil in 1944: Continuing Efforts to Rescue Children and the Struggle for Immigration
7. The Secret Partnership
8. "If There is a One in a Million Hope": Attempts to Rescue Hungarian Jewry and the Negotiations toward the End of the War
9. Bombing to Deter and Stultify
10. On the Brink of the Abyss: Financial Maneuvers by Ben-Gurion and Kaplan--1942 to 1943
11. Financing Activity in Liberated Europe
12. The Jewish Agency Budget and Fund-raising Appeals in Palestine
13. Fundraising Campaigns Abroad
14. Money Transfers
15. Funding Aid and Rescue Operations: A Summary
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index